[narag]

Many answers show a common trend: absurd prefixing rules. They're not only useless, but also counterproductive, because they prevent the incremental searches that are present in so many parts of the development tools.

If you prefix every table name with "tbl", you can't search for them in the DB manager console, the IDE table listing, a directory list of the creation scripts, etc.

I suffered an extreme version of this: there was some prefix that was also the directory name. So the files were called "prefix/prefixBlah". Also the prefix was used as class name and the fields were also prefixed with it.

The result was that a reference could become "prefix/prefixBlah/prefixBlah.prefixDoh", an awful noise to signal rate.

I complained without success. That way was "a lot more orderly and tidy" <sigh>.